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| 1822 |
| | The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA | |
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| c. 1830 |
| | A network of undercover abolitionists in the southern states of America help slaves escape to freedom in the north | |
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| 1843 |
| | The Great Migration across the north American continent to the Pacific establishes the Oregon Trail | |
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| c. 1846 |
| | The Irish, fleeing from the potato famine at home, become the main group of immigrants to the USA | |
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| 1846 |
| | Brigham Young leads the migration of Mormons west up the Missouri from Illinois | |
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| 1850 |
| | As many as 50,000 US pioneers travel west this year on the Oregon Trail | |
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| 1851 |
| | A journalist in the Terre Haute Express gives a piece of advice, 'Go west, young man', that chimes perfectly with the US pioneer spirit | |
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| 1852 |
| | In the four years since the discovery of gold, the population of California has leapt from 14,000 to 250,000 | |
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| c. 1860 |
| | German immigrants arriving in the USA now outnumber even the Irish | |
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| 1861 |
| | Chinese immigrants to Australia are the victims of violent racial attacks at Lambing Flat | |
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